Archives for May 2013

It's like this.
Feds indict Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi for racketeering. Whitey flees and Flemmi gets arrested. Before his trial he claims that he and Whitey were informants for the FBI and his handler was John Connolly.
Flemmi's … [Read more...]

Amid all of the sound and fury bubbling up from the IRS examination of the various conservative organizations there’s hope among the Tea Party faithful that this controversy will somehow breathe new life into their movement. But will it be … [Read more...]

I could only laugh when I heard the would be first lady publicly declare that there was a serious breach of trust between the White House and the American people. Did Ms. Romney ever stop to think about the fact there was never a bond of … [Read more...]

Onion:
Our Thoughts Go Out To Oklahoma,’ Says Congressman Mentally Calculating When He Can Bring Up Benghazi Again
VISTA, CA—Following the devastating tornado in Oklahoma this week that killed dozens of residents and displaced many … [Read more...]

Hi everyone,
This past weekend, our field team reached a huge milestone. So I asked my field Director, Carl Nilsson, to write a bit about it. Here's what he had to say:
We passed a milestone this past weekend, and it adds up to one … [Read more...]

I have, at various times, served in local (town) government. I'm guessing that most of my fellow BMG participants who have done or now do the same have encountered the venerable "Streetlight strategy", used by self-serving public officials … [Read more...]

The fight against tar sands isn't just about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline out west - it's also about the push for smaller tar sands pipeline projects across the country, including one Exxon Mobil & Enbridge are trying to sneak … [Read more...]

A lot of the local press was poised on May 1 to portray this year’s special election as a replay of the 2010 special election. Ed Markey was cast as the second coming of Martha Coakley, the longtime Democratic officeholder with progressive … [Read more...]

Now that the Massachusetts Senate has finalized its budget proposal for FY 2014, the next step is for the House and Senate to produce a single budget that reflects the priorities of the Legislature as a whole. To that end, a House-Senate … [Read more...]

Republicans think they're messing with Obama, and "Obamacare". I think they'll find that they're messing with people's health care. And that most people won't take too kindly to that.
Mike Capuano wrote recently in the Globe how the … [Read more...]